🇮🇹 Italian

bandiera

feminine

la bandiera

flag

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bandiera
/la banˈdjɛːra/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bandiera in Italian?

IPA
/la banˈdjɛːra/

How do you pronounce bandiera in Italian?

bandiera is pronounced /la banˈdjɛːra/ in Italian.

Example sentences

La bandiera italiana è rossa, bianca e verde.

The Italian flag is red, white, and green.

Quella bandiera antica era molto bella e preziosa.

That ancient flag was very beautiful and precious.

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Why is it feminine?

Bandiera is feminine because it derives from the Late Latin "banderia," which maintained the feminine gender of its root through the regular evolution of Latin -ia endings into Italian feminine nouns ending in -a. The word originally referred to a military company under a banner, preserving its grammatical gender through centuries of linguistic change.

What is the Italian word for flag?

The Italian word for flag is la bandiera — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchdrapeau flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishbanderalafeminine

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